2019 WASSCE results released; over 74,000 fail English Language

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the
provisional results of candidates who wrote the West African Senior
School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in 2019.

According to a press release signed by the Head of Public Affairs of
WAEC, Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, candidates can now access the results which
have been hosted on the WAEC website.

A 9.2% increase in the number of candidates was recorded on the number
of candidates in 2018. The number of candidates who sat the WASSCE rose
to 346,094 from 316,999.

The highest number of students to pass a single core subject was
recorded in the Social Studies exam with 257,828 (75.43%) candidates
obtaining grades between A1-C6 which the most failures were recorded in
the English Language exam with 74,038 (21.61%) obtaining grade F9.

The performance of the candidates in regard to the four core subjects are as follows;